Florencio Gelabert Soto

Havana, 1961. Lives and works in New York City.

Education and Professional Experience

He graduated from the San Alejandro Academy of Fine Arts and the Higher Institute of Art (ISA); he also has a master degree in visual arts from the University of Miami.

Personal Exhibitions

His work received acknowledgment from the Cuban critics with his show Sculptures in the early 1980s, and international acknowledgment since the 1990s, when his work was exhibited in the traveling solo show Sound of the Woods in the Jacobo Borges Museum of Contemporary Art of Caracas, Venezuela, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Panama.

Collective Exhibitions and Events

He has participated in the biennials Clay of America from 1998 and 2001, the Uppsala Biennial, in Sweden, in 2000; the Biennial of the Neighborhood, in New York, in 2007 and the Pontevedra Biennial, in Spain, in 2010. In 2006 his work Tree Column was shown as part of the public art program in Marcus Garvey Park of New York City.

Exhibitions in Villa Manuela

Traces

Florencio Gelabert Soto November 2011

Artworks (7)

The Piping (detail)

Florencio Gelabert Soto 2011

The Piping

Florencio Gelabert Soto 2011

The Outlet

Florencio Gelabert Soto 2011

The Drain

Florencio Gelabert Soto 2011

The Drain (detail)

Florencio Gelabert Soto 2011

The Site

Florencio Gelabert Soto 2011

The Site

Florencio Gelabert Soto 2011